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I haven't seen RPN inside a compiler yet, but that's actually not a bad idea. Interesting article.


Aren't stack machines the bread and butter of many intermediate representations? Or is that more of an interpreter thing than a compiler thing?


They are for executable formats.

On compiler IR, the modern way is to use SSA rather.




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